What made the war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta.
THUCYDIDESThose who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation.
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Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.
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It is men who make a city, not walls or ships.
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Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation.
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The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the vine.
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Don’t confuse meaning with truth.
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An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful.
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History is Philosophy teaching by example.
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It is a general rule of human nature that people despise those who treat them well, and look up to those who make no concessions.
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Concessions to adversaries only end in self reproach, and the more strictly they are avoided the greater will be the chance of security.
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Indeed it is generally the case that men are readier to call rogues clever than simpletons honest, and are ashamed of being the second as they are proud of being the first.
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Speculation is carried on in safety, but, when it comes to action, fear causes failure.
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Men’s indignation, it seems, is more exited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.
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knowing the secret of happiness to be freedom, and the secret of freedom a brave heart, not idly to stand aside from the enemy’s onset.
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The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.
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War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.
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